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Middle school writing-essays resources for Microsoft OneDrive and for staff and administrators
Argumentative Essay - DIGITAL Version - Argument Writing
Argument writing will be motivating with this step-by-step DIGITAL resource compatible with Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive. The slides are designed to lead your students with models and supports through the entire process! Easy-to-follow writing templates guide students in drafting all five paragraphs. Students can self-pace all the way through with the clear directions and prompts. Includes a mentor text to model strong writing. Perfect for the 1:1 classroom! Standards-aligned.A “No Counter
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Argumentative, Narrative, & Informative Writing DIGITAL VERSION Bundle
Memoir Writing Personal Narrative Writing Workshop Mini Lessons Print Digital
Print and Digital Formats! No planning needed! These 20 easy-to-use mini lessons have everything you need to make teaching memoir writing a snap! In six weeks, your students will go from generating an idea to writing a thoughtful personal narrative. Because the lessons are already finished, you'll have time to work with them every step of the way! Here's teachers are saying about my mini lessons:"I love how this resource breaks down each step of the process for students to make it more manag
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6th - 9th
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Descriptive Writing Activities and Practice with Mentor Texts
PRINT & DIGITAL! Struggling to teach descriptive writing? This lesson will help your students flex and strengthen their descriptive writing skills. Students analyze, sketch, write, and review mentor texts and their own writing to really dig into what is needed to create descriptive compositions. More than just worksheets!What you'll get:Print, Google Slide, and PowerPoint versions2 examples of descriptive writing to sketchelements of descriptive writing“build your toolbox” reference shee
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5th - 9th
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Writing Expository Essays PowerPoint with Printable Graphic Organizer
Expository Essay Writing PowerPoint and Graphic Organizer. Guide students step by step through an expository writing prompt, using a four-square graphic organizer. Students learn how to put ideas in logical order to support a thesis statement, develop an introductory paragraph with a hook, and develop a concluding paragraph that ends with a punch! This digital resource includes a printable graphic organizer template to print (black and white), links to online resources, and a writing prompt for
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7th - 10th
Informational Writing DIGITAL: 5 Informative Essays for Google Distance Learning
Writing informational essays will be exciting with this complete digital resource that breaks the process down into manageable steps! Easy to follow writing templates guide students in drafting their introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Five original mentor texts are included for modeling, along with topic suggestions, pre-writing organizers, and rubrics. And with five different types of essays, you’ll have everything you need to teach informative writing with differentiation. Perfect
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Argumentative, Narrative, & Informative Writing DIGITAL VERSION Bundle
Argument Writing DIGITAL Interactive Argumentative Essay
Argumentative Essay Writing: Google Classroom for Middle School ELA Remote TeachingTeaching the argument essay is so much easier when you have a step-by-step digital interactive unit that guides kids through the entire process. With just a few clicks of your mouse, multiple interactive lessons will be right in front of your students and remote learning will take place!This can be used as a teacher-directed unit. Or it can be completely student-directed. Instructions are given for both methods o
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6th - 10th
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20 Mini Lessons Slides Writing Workshop Activities Back to School
Not sure where to start with writing workshop? What do students do when there is extra time? What should they do if they need to use the restroom? How should the noise level of the room be monitored? Teach your students how your writing workshop will run with these 20 mini lessons that will set you up for success by teaching students how to manage workshop time -- from noise level to fast finishers!And what's even better? You'll have 20 mini lesson plans completed, so you're ready to go! Lo
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Back to School Planning Bundle Reading, Writing, Research Activities
Fact Checking Digital Literacy Activities Print and Digital
Print and digital options! Teach this critical thinking skill along with research. This valuable skill helps them navigate the information they're exposed to every day. Teach them to determine the credibility of what they read...from emails to web sites. Fact checking helps students develop the critical thinking skills they need to determine the validity of the information they receive online and through other media sources -- especially when they are conducting research. This resource uses
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5th - 9th
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Theme Essay for ANY Literature - DIGITAL Version
Writing a Theme Essay will be motivating with this step-by-step digital resource designed to lead your students through the entire process! Great for classroom or remote teaching, easy-to-follow writing templates guide students in drafting all four paragraphs.Students identify two themes evident in the text and devote one paragraph to each theme. In each paragraph, students discuss how a prominent character is involved with the theme topic and what the author wants us to learn or understand.A li
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6th - 9th
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Writing Good Beginnings: Narrative Writing Hooks to Engage the Reader PowerPoint
Writing narrative hooks that engage the reader is a great writing skill. PowerPoint lesson focuses on writing hooks using three strategies to lead into a story and hook the reader, with student and professional examples. Three different writing strategies to engage the reader, grab their attention, and create great beginnings for a narrative account or expository essay, and will help students overcome writer's block, especially when preparing for state writing tests. Includes a slide with severa
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6th - 9th
Memoir Writing and Personal Expository Essay DIGITAL
This is the digital interactive version of Memoir and Personal Expository Essay: Writing About Me! "Writing About Me!" is a fun mini-unit that can be used to teach memoir or personal expository essay writing. I've included lesson plans for 3 different ways to use these resources, but you will probably think of even more! Your students will enjoy sharing memories and "snapshots" from their lives. And you will enjoy the fact that your students will learn about memoir writing with no prep required.
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4th - 8th
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Prewriting Activities Notebook for Writing Workshop
If your students struggle to pick a topic, narrow it, and organize their thoughts -- they will benefit from more prewriting activities -- and I've got 11 for you!This resource couldn't be easier to use -- just download the digital file, save to your drive, and use. You can share the whole digital notebook or just one activity at a time. Easy-cheesy for mini lessons! Just project the slides and model (or use the student example). Reflection questions help guide discussion -- because students
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5th - 8th
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A Persuasive Writing Recipe PowerPoint
Persuasive Writing PowerPoint teaches students how to write to persuade an audience. It gives students a "recipe" to follow when writing a persuasive essay and the basic framework for a persuasive writing piece, starting with an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement, at least three well-supported paragraphs that have a topic sentence related to the thesis statement, and a conclusion that restates the thesis and calls the reader to agree and take action. This digital resource teaches how
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Persuasive Writing Bundle for Middle Grades
Character Traits Essay - Literary Essay Writing - DIGITAL Version
Character Traits Essay – Informative Writing - Here’s the DIGITAL version of a literary essay made easy and ready to use with ANY text! This step-by-step resource is designed to lead your students through the entire process of writing a character analysis essay. Great for distance learning, students can self-pace all the way through with the clear directions and prompts. Perfect for the 1:1 classroom! Easy-to-follow templates guide students in drafting all four paragraphs! Includes a mentor text
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5th - 8th
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ACE Strategy Anchor Chart (Answer with Evidence) [Digital Version]
ACE Strategy Anchor Chart
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Guide students to create responses with evidence built in with this ACE strategy anchor chart!
ACE is Answer, Cite, and Explain. Students use this to answer all questions and responses within essays. It is a successful strategy for students to prepare for meeti
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3rd - 8th, Staff
Expository Writing Process Journal Activities
Your students will gain writing confidence with this easy-to-use digital writing notebook! Guide them through the expository writing process -- and as they write, their ideas and thoughts are automatically saved to their drives.
You'll be able to use this resource all year!
Pair with your favorite writing assignment, or let your students choose their own topic.
This lesson includes:
• graphic organizers to help students generate ideas
• thesis statement generator
• supporting detail chart
•
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Informational/Prompt Writing: Middle/High School: Cross-Curricular, Organization
"I teach Science, not writing." Well, not according to the Common Core Standards! We must all incorporate writing into our curriculum. What we NEED to be successful is a common language and a common set of expectations for writing in every subject area for consistency and success - both for students AND for teachers.
This download will walk you through how our school adopted a common language of using writing models, scaffolding grids, and the TEL-Con writing structure. It immediately put teac
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Ready Made Presentation - Four Types of Sentences - Ready to Edit! Demo Lesson
Ready Made Presentation - Four Types of Sentences Presentation - Black Board Theme On White Background - Ready to Edit! Fully Customizable20 Minute Demo LessonThis product includes 18 slides - type to edit and add your details.Also included are digital stickers that you may use for district, campus, classroom, marketing, flyers, and parent, and teacher meetings.Save Time, and work Smarter! Ready to Edit, type in your information.This product is available for immediate download as a PowerPoint fi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
ANNE FRANK Essay Questions, Writing Prompts & Speech DIGITAL Thesis Summative
Our The Diary of Anne Frank Topics will get learners engaging with meaningful topics the novel raises:a. PLOTS/SUBPLOTS - Anne Frank & Peter's relationship; the Van Daan family relationshipb. COMPARE/CONTRAST - Anne Frank & Margot's relationship w/ parentsc. CHARACTER - Anne Frank, Margot, Peter, Mr. Frank, Dusseld. THEME - Analyze/Compare w/ other time periodse. THEME/POINT OF VIEW - Margot, Mr. Frank, Miep, Mr. Van Daan, DusselINCLUDES:★ 25-slide bundle★ 5 essay topics★ Character Quote
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7th - 9th
Free Response Essay Workbook
Free Response Question Writing Process Notebook is a resource to guide students during the writing process for a prompt-based essay. This resource guides students through four major progressions of FRQ essay writing: understanding the prompt, developing your thesis, organizing your points, and citing your evidence. It is versatile because it can be printed and used as a hardcopy source, or it can be used digitally! Directions for Google Classroom and Microsoft OneDrive are included. Students can
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Digital Argument Writing Prompts - Evidence, Counterargument, Refutation
Use these argument writing prompts on Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive to give students practice writing justification, evidence, counterargument, and refutation. Each prompt starts with an engaging claim for adolescents, including topics on some of the following: electronics in class, the high school dropout age, employment restrictions for teens, college entrance exam requirements, public displays of affection, and ADHD medication prescriptions. There are 15 topics in total and a blank templ
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8th - 11th
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Digital Paired Texts - Barbara Kingsolver & Sandra Cisneros - Essay Writing
Here is a digital writing task lesson for Google Drive. This activity guides students through close readings of the poem, "Naming Myself" by Barbara Kingsolver, and the excerpt, "My Name" (The House on Mango Street) by Sandra Cisneros. Then the lesson facilitates students' understanding of themes as they construct connections between the texts. Activity handouts focus on close reading and provide before-, during-, and post-reading strategies. Furthermore, a slide with model annotations helps t
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Paired Texts, Close Reading, Essay Writing - Digital Learning Bundle
Writer's Workshop for Newbies (and Great Ideas for the Experienced!)
I created this presentation for a 30-person PD to introduce K-12 teachers at my school to the workshop model, as I was the only one at the school who had done it previously (for 5 years). It gives an overview of a *balanced* workshop model; helpful hints about conferencing, homework, class management and organization; a number of rubrics, on-demand assessments and activities I use; and at least ten potential mini-lessons for your students. The presentation can last 60-90 minutes, but the lessons
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3rd - 9th, Staff
Essay Writing PowerPoint and Printable Graphic Organizer
Makes writing essays easy! Teach how to write an essay by prewriting first with a graphic organizer. This PowerPoint will walk students through a helpful graphic organizer and using it to write a rough draft of an essay, either expository or persuasive.A sample of the graphic organizer is on a slide, but I usually make two blank copies of the organizer to give to each student. A printable graphic organizer is included at the end for you to print for student copies. We do one together on the pr
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6th - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Persuasive Writing Bundle for Middle Grades
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